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'A Matter of Time'

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'A Matter of Time'

Published: Wed, 13 May 2009

Description: Could Farrah Fawcett be fighting her final battle with cancer? Dr. Manny reacts

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" Plus she is perhaps best known for her role as a crime fighter on Charlie's angels and today Farah -- Is in the fight of her life issues pictured eight years ago with -- more recently that your son Redmond. Within there are new concerns that she. Maybe getting closer to the end of her battle with cancer but she has done a admirable job. Surviving so far Dr. Manny Alvarez is the managing editor. Fox News -- dot com what do we know about -- there's a lot of talk in the tabloids out there that she is you know in in the final stages all we've heard that before. I'm Ryan O'Neal now as saying that she is bedridden and that she's a city and what tell me what you are aware of in terms of what -- the amendment that."

" The personal facts of course are not totally out we know that she had rectal cancer and now perhaps has metastatic cancer. We're just that they believe that courses some of these -- take. Once you have metastatic cancer was just stage Ford -- can shoot the prognosis is very poor yes -- treated with chemotherapy sometimes surgery but nonetheless. Once you have that passes is to deliverables -- like that. It you know this is just a matter of time do this this so much that radiation or even chemotherapy can do for some of these patients. You know it really is that's the whole thing she's gone on for so long we know so little about. About type of cancer a lot of celebrities. -- get involved because they want to try to help others and we've just been kind of look a lid put on -- you -- anything digital rectal cancer has the stigmata you know people don't really want to talk about and I think one of the important factors here is that. You know it's I hope what -- blessed me about it and I said look this is the significance of getting rectal exams. Especially women and men in their fifties or late forties you know sometimes doctors don't perform as many rectal exams isn't sure it. Did you Alexander and physical routine physical examination should be part of the standard. And look at that if a doctor wants to do rectal exam you have to remember the significance of rectal cancer because it is a silent killer are you don't get any symptoms once the tumor has really gone out of its location for the most part we get the rectal bleeding of the pain. For the you know you begin to lose weight so you have to be very careful about it. -- there's not a lot of known facts about rectal cancers so far surpassed the Genesis of that we know that there's some viruses that have been linked to rectal cancer development. But rectal examination of anything you would learn anything about the story is that rectal exams even though they're uncomfortable and embarrassing. This is something that you have scored."

" Tonight a man who is important right and -- ahead absolutely got to me thank you very much in our thoughts are with her and her family of course as she battles cancer. -- remember the the other story the big."

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